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We discovered that making our Web Player accessible was going to be a difficult, yet achievable, challenge. In addition, there were accessibility issues in our clients that we needed to solve. Due to having to implement many of the features twice at different levels of complexity while dealing with context switching, we were not shipping new features at the pace we would have liked to. But those same engineers were having difficulties with the Desktop client, which used a very diverse range of web technologies (thanks to Conway’s law). The Desktop was our rich, full-featured experience and the Web Player was a much lighter, simpler experience.īecause the Web Player was implemented with a modern React app architecture, we had success onboarding new engineers to the Web Player code. Towards the end of 2018, our team was the owner of a recently built Web Player, as well as Spotify’s Desktop client. We couldn’t build everything we wanted to for our users with our old setup, so we decided to do something about it. The new embedded search bar can be used to find and add new songs and podcast episodes to new and existing playlists.For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single desktop UI for both the Desktop application and the Web Player. Users also get the ability to write descriptions, upload images, drag and drop tracks into existing playlists. Listeners profile pages now include top artists and tracks and there's simpler playlist creation wit integrated search. The ‘Search' function can now be found on the left side of the navigation page. The new design delivers a new clean look with more controls.

The company says that the feature will also appear on the desktop app in a new style that's consistent with the updated design and desktop experience.

As mentioned, Spotify web player users in India can now access the synced Lyrics feature that is popular in the mobile app. The company has announced that the new design and features for desktop app and web player users have begun rolling out today and will be available to all free and premium users globally in the coming weeks. The new design is said to be the result of months of testing and research after receiving user feedback.

Web player users in India also get access to synced lyrics as well. It has also introduced simpler playlist creation tools and the ability to drag and drop tracks into playlists. The new look brings an improved look and feel with the search bar now on the left side of the navigation page. Spotify is rolling out a new design for its desktop and web players.